Release notes for MuseScore 3.1 Beta (April 12, 2019)

New

• Single-note dynamics playback - long notes can play dynamic changes
• Updated soundfont that supports single-note dynamics out of the box
• High quality soundfont with better strings and synth instruments available as an extension in the Resource Manager
• Half-time/Double-time feature that shortens and lengthens rhythms on copy-pasting
• Linearization feature that unrolls all repeats
• Internal computational approach that allows creating 256th, 512th, 1024th notes and any kind of compound tuplets
• Online documentation for Plugin API is available

Improvements

• Select notes after deleting various elements
• Make copy-pasting hairpins possible
• Fix significant lag on iterating over notes with left-right arrows
• UI refinements including more streamlined Inspector

Fixes

• Accent-staccato didn't work in default template
• Some properties were not kept on saving score
• Incorrect key/time signatures and clefs appeared in the score in specific cases
• User-modified barlines were not linking correctly between staves of a score, parts, and multimeasure rests
• Ties were laid out incorrectly in some cases
• Problems with layout of with beams, slurs, tuplets, and tremolo in cross-staff notation
• Sizes and positions of some elements were not scaling correctly for small staves
• Brackets didn't appear after section break
• Users were automatically logged out after 5 hours when using Save Online
• Phrasing in target measure was not cleared on copy-pasting
• ChordIdentifier Plugin didn't work with MuseScore 3

Complete list of issues resolved

Here is a complete list of the issues resolved in this update:

Playback

• #68456: Bends are out of tune
• #286207: Fortepianos that last longer than a segment play incorrectly
• Fix double articulations playback in default template
• #286757: Accent-staccato playback bug in string quartet template
• #285934: [Guitar Pro] Regression: GP 5/4/3 files Plays Piano Only
• Single-note dynamics feature
• New soundfont with improved strings, synth sound and single-note dynamics support out of the box

Layout and automatic placement

• #281024: Invisible staves inappropriately factored into note spacing
• #279259: Chord symbol spacing issues
• #88411: Ties in tablature: vertical position wrong and ends hidden behind fret marks
• #279182: Cross-staff slurs/ties trying to avoid note on wrong staff
• #286794: Permanent double time signature/key signature after style changed then save/reload
• #280969: Cross staff 8ths lose beam if all notes moved to staff above
• #281024: Invisible staves inappropriately factored into note spacing
• #284046: Breaths & Pauses accumulate offset
• #284644: Part Name reference point in generated parts
• #280657: Measure Rests laid out incorrect x position in measure after adjusting their x/y offset
• #283177: Insert measure at beginning of system generates extra undeletable key signature.
• #286948: Ties arranged obliquely by automatic placement if more than one voice exists in a staff (MuseScore 3.1.0)
• #287022: Tie position incorect over line break without clef
• #286530: Dot sizes small in instrument parts
• #279417: Brackets do not appear after horizontal frame
• #281019: Staff text offset applied to wrong above/below position
• #282021: Beam thickness not scaling with staff size
• #282026: Stem Displacement
• #286645: Elements not scaling with staff size
• #284440: Positions above/below staff not scaling with staff size
• #283312: Hairpin position changes on reload if horizontal offset applied on small staff
• #285802: strange placement of tuplet number in cross-staff tuplets
• #280531: Beam separates from stems when crossing staves.
• #285603: Cross-staff tremolo causes disconnected beams
• #286017: initial barline vanishes when changing linetype
• #280912: Double barline not synced in a score with parts
• #102821: "Dropping" end barline onto Multi-Measure rest should apply barline to end of multi-measure rest
• #282696: Double Bar lines do not extend between instruments
• #283318: Show barlines check box has no effect
• #285279: Hide system barlines check box has no effect
• #123436: Double barline doesn't appear on the staff of the added instrument

UI/UX

• #283828: Add end-start repeat barline back to barlines- and repeats palettes
• #286068: Playback cursor not tracking notes on invisible staves
• #286276: Leave note selected when adding palette items in note input mode
• #286067: Palette selections stay highlighted
• Inspector UI improvements
• #279389: Request to rename "Timewise delete" command
• Hairpins could not be copied to another place
• #286821: Common instruments lists all
• Users were automatically logged out 5 hours after log in
• Improved UI for play panel widget
• #284501: The "stemless" checkbox inside bar properties does not produce effect unless the page is redrawn
• Fix palette elements drawing
• #286651: Redundant text style controls in various Style dialog sections
• #276504: Palettes: need to double-check a few icons
• #283140: Replace 'Delete selected measures' by 'Timewise Delete'

Commands/Properties

• #278847: 2 decimal places for tempos
• #282862: Moving an image can't be undone
• #285781: Non-default style settings in score get applied to all parts on reload, leading to bad transposition and other loss of data
• #283592: Feature to write out jumps and repeates (Linearization)
• #285923: Lines from palette added by double-click with range selection ignore score style settings
• #287141: No element is selected after deleting slur or other marking
• Selection was dropped after deleting various elements
• #45361: copy/paste and "R" do not delete slurs or lines in target measures
• #281083: Slur should be deleted when changing duration of note deletes subsequent notes connected to the slur.
• #285383: Edits to "let ring" and "palm mute" lost on save/reload
• #282191: Lines: need to add text to "Palm Mute" and "let ring"
• #284991: Fermatas prevent hiding of staves
• #282890: Figured bass style parameters not saved
• #285432: Fermata manual adjustment not saved
• #286121: Text font and size in footer of a part are fixed (to those of score). Changes have no effect.
• #283033: Improve Delete measure

Corruptions and/or loss of data, crashes

• #283545: Crash on undoing removal horizontal frame
• #285888: Crash on removing a horizontal frame twice
• #285662: 3:4 tuplet appears corrupted
• #286240: Crash in Brackets Editing Mode and on Save
• #286946: [MusicXML import] crash when importing file with duplicate rest
• Possible crash happened on startup because of sequencer initialiser code
• Possible crash happened on crash reporter destruction
• #287102: Remove Selected Range (Timewise Delete) of a partial note in another voice leads to crash
• #274614: Crash after stopping playback during soundfont load and doing something
• #273783: Crash when playing and closing score whilst synthesiser loads
• #279801: remove MDL ends in crash
• #283497: Setting of disable multimeasure rests in parts is lost after saving
• #286121: Insert measures of exactly one system leads to crash on Undo/Redo
• #278707: Files with 256th, 512th and 1024th notes are corrupted
• #285693: Crash when enabling MIDI via palette button

Plugins

• Add Doxygen based documentation for Plugin API
• NoteNames plugin didn't work correctly with grace notes
• ChordIdentifier plugin didn't work in MuseScore 3

Performance

• Fix significant lag on iterating over notes with left-right arrows

Miscellaneous

• #285858: Turning off mmrests results in assertion failure
• Fix memory leaks which led to consuming too much RAM
• Some elements appeared untranslated
• #277903: sad state of command line option documentation
• #281867: "MuseScore quit unexpectedly" when closing MuseScore 3.0.[1-5] on macOS with a MIDI device
• #286666: Figured bass: Error message when no note selected untranslatable
• Implement half time and double time feature on copy pasting
• User appeared logged out when MuseScore finished incorrectly